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<td class="v">22:1</td>
<td>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">22:2</td>
<td>Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.</td>
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<td class="v">22:3</td>
<td>Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.</td>
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<td class="v">22:4</td>
<td>Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.</td>
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<td class="v">22:5</td>
<td>Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.</td>
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<td class="v">22:6</td>
<td>Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.</td>
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<td class="v">22:7</td>
<td>In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.</td>
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<td class="v">22:8</td>
<td>Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.</td>
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<td class="v">22:9</td>
<td>In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.</td>
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<td class="v">22:10</td>
<td>In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.</td>
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<td class="v">22:11</td>
<td>And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.</td>
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<td class="v">22:12</td>
<td>In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.</td>
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<td class="v">22:13</td>
<td>Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.</td>
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<td class="v">22:14</td>
<td>Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.</td>
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<td class="v">22:15</td>
<td>And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.</td>
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<td class="v">22:16</td>
<td>And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">22:17</td>
<td>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">22:18</td>
<td>Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.</td>
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<td class="v">22:19</td>
<td>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">22:20</td>
<td>As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.</td>
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<td class="v">22:21</td>
<td>Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.</td>
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<td class="v">22:22</td>
<td>As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.</td>
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<td class="v">22:23</td>
<td>And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">22:24</td>
<td>Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.</td>
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<td class="v">22:25</td>
<td>There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.</td>
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<td class="v">22:26</td>
<td>Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.</td>
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<td class="v">22:27</td>
<td>Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.</td>
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<td class="v">22:28</td>
<td>And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.</td>
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<td class="v">22:29</td>
<td>The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.</td>
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<td class="v">22:30</td>
<td>And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.</td>
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<td class="v">22:31</td>
<td>Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.</td>
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